• Kissaki@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    5 months ago

    You gotta separate the concept of a right from fulfilling them.

    You can have a human right. But that alone does not answer how it is fulfilled.

    The right is not owned. It can’t be.

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      5 months ago

      You gotta separate the concept of a right from fulfilling them.

      Says who?

      If a human right only exists on paper it’s not a right - it’s a buzzterm for political racketeers to throw around. Fulfilling a “bill of rights” is the core part of the (so-called) “social contract” between the liberal state and it’s subjects - if it’s merely “fulfilling” those by pretending they exist, the existence of the liberal state - and liberalism itself - becomes irrelevant and unjustifiable to the subjects.